Published: March 7, 2025
CHAPTER 337: The Fifth Minister in Action
"I've been thinking about this for a long time," Yin Wutian snorted, his expression increasingly grim: "I want to do this!"
"Shut up!" Jing Menghun said sternly: "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Do you know who Cheng Yunhe is? How can you even say something like that!"
"My brother's leg is closely related to that old thief Cheng Yunhe!" Yin Wutian gritted his teeth fiercely.
"You're insane! That Young Master Ye is clearly a spy!" Jing Menghun retorted angrily: "Do you really believe what he says?"
"Young Master Ye is certainly not a good person; but that doesn't mean his insights are false," Yin Wutian replied coldly: "We've studied my brother's injury several times and concluded that it's a peculiar form of martial arts that directly damages the meridians. Moreover, it's sharp."
"But Young Master Ye immediately recognized it as invisble sword qi!" Yin Wutian insisted: "That can't be wrong!"
"Even if it's true, what does that have to do with Cheng Yunhe? He's just a frail scholar!" Jing Menghun was genuinely worried. If she couldn't dissuade Yin Wutian from this thought, and he really killed Cheng Yunhe...
It would be disastrous!
With Diwu Qingrou's regard for Cheng Yunhe, how could she allow Yin Wutian to kill him?
"Only he has the opportunity!" Yin Wutian remained unmoved: "Even if he didn't do it, he must know something." Hatred gleamed in his eyes: "Could my brother's leg be crippled for nothing?"
"Fourth Brother!" Jing Menghun called out sternly, then said solemnly: "Keep this matter to yourself..."
As soon as those words were spoken, Yin Wutian immediately realized that Jing Menghun likely had her own doubts.
"Keep it to myself..." Yin Wutian let out a cold sneer, his eyes flashing with cold light, he murmured: "But... he is my own brother... my biological brother... we are connected by blood..."
Jing Menghun was momentarily speechless. She stared blankly at Yin Wutian, both of them gazing at each other but remaining silent. The tent fell into a dead silence.
…
Diwu Qingrou returned to the Xiang Residence and immediately wrote a letter. Then he clapped his hands, and from the wall behind him, something twisted and wriggled, as if it were a living creature...
After a moment, a strange shadow separated from within, resembling a bird, extremely ethereal.
Diwu Qingrou rolled up the letter, rubbed it between his hands until it turned into a small sphere, and stuffed it into the mouth of the ethereal bird.
The ethereal bird then began to retreat. When it touched the wall, the space suddenly rippled with a distortion, then slowly returned to normal.
In an instant, the peculiar bird vanished without a trace.
Diwu Qingrou quietly sat in his chair, his eyes gleaming sharply, lost in thought; after a long time, he clapped his hands and said: "Summon Han Buchu, Cheng Yunhe, along with the generals from the Eight Great War Zones, and the high-ranking officials from the ministries of military and revenue. Everyone must arrive here by tomorrow afternoon!"
There was a decisive tone in Diwu Qingrou's voice! It was cold and stern!
"Understood," came a reply from outside the study.
Diwu Qingrou rubbed his temples, slowly pacing; after a long while, he stood by the window and muttered to himself: "Then let’s just cover the world with this!"
He then turned around, flicked his fingers, and with a whoosh, a large map fell from the wall!
The map was three zhang wide at the top and bottom, but nearly ten zhang long from left to right!
The terrain was vividly depicted, extremely detailed.
In the middle of the map, two characters were marked in red by Diwu Qingrou: Iron Cloud!
This was indeed a map of the entire Iron Cloud nation.
"Conspiracy and schemes are merely minor tricks; even if they are useful, they are of limited effect. The truly decisive power lies on the battlefield!" Diwu Qingrou murmured: "If we strike from nine directions..."
His gaze landed on the border between Iron Cloud and Great Zhao, a place where both sides had fought fiercely for hundreds of years! That territory!